Hi,
I’m trying to use Direct Display Out on my Windows 11 Pro machine and am getting this error message:
AFAIK Windows 11 Pro means Windows 11 Pro. Is Windows 11 Pro not actually Windows 11 Pro? Or is this a case of, “this isn’t the flavor for Workstations”?
Build 2023.12000 on “Windows 11 Pro”
When I saw this new feature in the changelog I was so excited - and then immediately depressed when I saw that it required the “Pro for Workstations” version, which Microsoft seems to be trying to hide for some reason…
There actually is an ADDITIONAL upgrade to “Windows 11 Pro” that is called “Windows 11 Pro for Workstations” 
Compare Windows 11 Business Editions | Microsoft
It is impossible to find any info on how to actually purchase it through their website, but searching the internet gets me this page where I think you can buy a “retail” license of it that should be moveable between computers (don’t quote me on that) for $309usd here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro-for-workstations/dg7gmgf0kr4m
Or if you already have Win11 Pro, if you go to the Microsoft Store APP and start typing “Windows 11 Pro” into the search bar - but DON’T actually search or even continue typing the full phrase past that! (MS wonders why nobody uses their search) - you will see a suggestion in the dropdown for more info about “Windows 10/11 Pro for Workstations Upgrade”:
Click on the dropdown suggestion (actually searching for that doesn’t get you anywhere of course) and then you should go to a page where I think you can buy the $125usd upgrade from regular “Pro” to “Pro for Workstations” - but don’t quote me on that either.
Absolutely infuriating to have to chase down how to give MS money for a “better” Windows experience (don’t even get me started on LTSC) but unfortunately this seems to be the only way. Also really sucks that this feature is only available on the Workstation version, but hopefully maybe MS will roll it into regular Windows 11 Pro (or just Windows itself) because this is stupid and should be an easily accessible feature if they don’t want to make it easy to upgrade.
…or maybe we can get a bare-bones version of TD for Linux, and get off the Enshittifica-train that is the Windows OS experience? 
Yeah, it’s another license above the standard Pro. It’s unclear why they gated it behind this version, but that’s the state of things right now.
We were able to successfully upgrade to workstation on our studio machine using the Microsoft store but it was indeed a bit opaque and difficult to find. The vendor we are working with to build our production machine was easily able to install the workstation flavor for us.
As much as I’d appreciate TouchDesigner on Linux, the Nvidia drivers still lag behind in important ways. For example, ddisplay has not been released on Linux yet afaict which is key for this workflow.
